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Patience, padawan. It's coming.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/giuliani-ordered-property-luxury-items-election-workers.html?
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1158207425/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/trump-associates-prison-sentence-crimes-list
It's still not certain. A lot of those people are free now. But that's not a new development, by any means. For a long, long time the system in Washington was that if you had the right kind of money and friends, and left the big fish alone, you could do whatever you wanted. Like a lot of corrupt systems, that way continued and festered until it began to collapse under its own bloated weight. Some amount of daylight is starting to break through, now, and you can be a big-name crook and still be treated like a crook.
It's not sure which way it's going to go, though, long term. At its core, the election in 2 weeks is a referendum on whether we're going to change that, and move some amount of incremental distance towards sending some big fish to real big boy prison when they break the law, or if we're going to continue it and let it fester, and expand by 10 times.
If Trump wins, the person who plows his car into you at a protest might get a full pardon, because his heart was in the right place. Or the person who guns down a crowd of Democrats in line to vote. Or the person who made the plans for breaking into congress and taking all the wrong people away in zip cuffs, to the crowd waiting outside.
Make sure to vote.